SEND & SEMH Education Roles New

I'm currently recruiting Teachers, Teaching Assistants, Learning Support Assistants, Behaviour Mentors and other support staff for specialist SEND and SEMH schools across East Sussex.

Some of the people I work with have built their entire careers in specialist education.

Others arrive through a completely different route.

They've worked in mainstream schools, youth services, care, coaching, mentoring or other roles supporting young people, and eventually realise that many of the skills they've developed are exactly the ones specialist schools value.

So, whether SEND is already familiar territory or something you're considering for the first time, I'm happy to have that conversation.

I work with specialist primary and secondary settings across Hastings, Battle, Eastbourne, Hailsham, Seaford, Newhaven, Lewes and surrounding areas.

The opportunities vary considerably between schools, but regularly include:

• SEND & SEMH Teachers
• Teaching Assistants
• Learning Support Assistants
• Behaviour & Engagement Mentors
• 1:1 Support
• Pastoral & Intervention roles
• Flexible day-to-day work
• Long-term and ongoing placements

Some schools need experienced specialist educators. Others are able to look at people with strong transferable experience who are ready to move into SEND.

That depends enormously on the setting and the young people you're supporting.

You might be helping a pupil access learning in the classroom, working individually with somebody who needs more focused support, helping with emotional regulation or supporting a young person to re-engage after they've found education difficult.

There will be challenging days.

Plans won't always survive first contact with the classroom. Progress isn't always linear, and the approach that works brilliantly with one pupil might achieve absolutely nothing with another.

That's part of why relationships matter so much.

The strongest people I've worked alongside in SEND weren't necessarily the loudest or the strictest people in the room. They were often the ones who took the time to understand the young person, remained consistent and knew how to adapt without losing their boundaries.

Before moving into recruitment, I worked directly within SEND education myself.

That experience is useful now because I know that specialist schools aren't interchangeable.